The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, August 5, 2024. announced that it had registered 119,206 and 58,708 new voters in Edo and Ondo States respectively.
The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Sam Olumekun, disclosed this while making the commission’s analysis public in Abuja.
According to Mr Olumekun the figures do not include the 8,847 applications for transfer into Edo and 3,132 into Ondo from other states of the federation.
He noted that on June 11, INEC had released a preliminary figure of newly registered voters ahead of the two states governorship elections, before the period for claims and objections.
Mr Olumekun stated that the release was followed by the cleaning up of the data using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)
He words, “The number of new voters for Edo is 119,206 and 58,708 for Ondo. These figures do not include the 8,847 applications for transfer into Edo and the 3,132 into Ondo from other states of the Federation.
“Similarly, they do not include applications for transfer within the two states because they are already captured on the voters’ register.
“The figures of the new voters and inter-state transfers are being integrated into the existing register.
“In the next few days, the commission will release the comprehensive and final register of voters to be used for the 2024 governorship elections for each of the states,” he noted.
Olumekun stated that the analysis also indicating the distribution by Local Government Areas, gender, age, occupation and disability is in the public domain on INEC website and social media platforms for public information.
